OCD Treatment - How to do ERP for Pure OCDhttps://www.ocdacademy.com/p/free-compulsion-inventory

In this video, I talk about the Exposure and Response Prevention and how it applies to the treatment of Pure OCD. The whole point of ERP is to expose yourself to or experience something that triggers your anxiety and then prevent yourself from responding with compulsions.

When you do this correctly you allow yourself to achieve habituation and successfully face down your fears. In this video, I give a brief description of how to apply ERP with Pure OCD treatment.

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00:00 All right. Hello and welcome to this episode where I'm going to talk about Erp for pure ocd. So again, my name is Matt Codde. I'm a licensed clinical social worker and the founder of the OCD Academy. And in this video I want to talk about is a really common question I did where when we talk about Erp and, um, people say, well, why don't do compulsion? So what if I don't do compulsion's or you know, what...

In this video, I talk about the Exposure and Response Prevention and how it applies to OCD treatment. The whole premise of ERP is to expose yourself to something that triggers your anxiety and prevent yourself from responding with compulsions. When you do this correctly you allow yourself to achieve habituation and successfully overcome your fears. In this video, I give a brief description of how to apply ERP with OCD treatment.

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00:00 All right. Hello and welcome to this episode where I'm going to talk about exposure and Response Prevention. My name is Matt. I'm a licensed clinical social worker, know most of the founder of the OCD Academy. And in this series I really am trying to answer as many questions as I can, kind of the frequent questions that I get an explained some just just overall concepts of the OCD treatment and the OCD recovery process...

In this video, I talk about the transtheoretical model of behavior change and how it applies to OCD treatment. The five stages of change are pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. In this video, I give a brief description of each stage and how it applies to the treatment of OCD.

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00:00 All right. Hello and welcome to this episode on the transtheoretical model of behavior change. My name is Matt and I want to just say welcome, uh, this, uh, to this kind of series where we're talking about OCD treatment and ocd recovery and I'm kind of just introducing the concepts and answering a lot of the common questions that I get to really help you on your journey to recovery from ocd. So in this video, like I said, I want to talk about this idea of behavior change. And so one of the things that, you know, we, uh, that we talk about a lot in...

In this video, I explain how you are not your thoughts. A lot of the pain people experience from OCD and Anxiety comes from an over-identification with one's thoughts, which is often called cognitive fusion. In this video, I explain the concept of cognitive defusion and make the argument that you really are not your thoughts.

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00:00 All right. Hello and welcome to this episode. In this episode I'm going to talk about this idea that you are not your thoughts. So first and foremost, my name is Matt Codde. I'm a licensed clinical social worker and I'm the founder of the OCD Academy. And in this video, instead of addressing a question I know in my last episodes, um, I've been in this series, I've been talking about like a specific question as it relates to ocd treatment and OCD recovery. But in this video I want to talk more about just a concept that I like to talk about...

In this video, I talk about how trying to stop anxiety will actually make it worse. I also talk about changing your beliefs and relationship with anxiety and different techniques you should consider if you are struggling with ocd and anxiety.

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00:00 Okay, hello and welcome to this training on how to stop feeling anxious or how to stop feeling feelings that we don't want to feel. Um, this is part four of this, uh, this training series on really most of the treatment and frequently asked questions that I get about the treatment process and recovery process of OCD. My name is Matt Cottey and I'm a licensed clinical social worker and I'm also the founder of the academy. And again, in this video I want to talk about this idea of trying to stop feelings. Okay? So in part three of this training, um, and there's a little link below if you, if you haven't gone through that...

In this video, I talk about a question I hear all the time - how do I stop unwanted and intrusive thoughts? In this training I explain why trying to stop your thoughts actually will make them appear on a higher frequency. I also talk about different techniques you should consider if you are struggling with unwanted or intrusive thoughts.

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00:00 All right, hello and welcome to part three of this free training where I'm, I'm gonna just talk about ocd, OCD treatment, ocd recovery, and uh, I'm really trying to answer some of the main questions that I get from clients on a day to day basis. And so in this particular training, I'm going to talk about this idea of how do I stop bad thoughts, right? This is a question that I get nearly everyday and um, it's, it's a question that is, is really important because when you're first starting out in recovery that that seems to be everyone's main goal. Like how do I stop the...

In this video, I talk about the treatment process for OCD and what real recovery looks like. This is the second video in this series on OCD Treatment. In this video, I provide a general overview of what OCD Recovery looks like from both a client and therapist perspective. I also talk about what to expect during the treatment process.

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00:00 All right, hello and welcome to part two of this training. What we're talking about OCD recovery. And so, um, in part one I talked about this, this idea of what, um, you know, ocd is, and in this particular training I want to talk about this idea of what it means, um, or what, what recovery of ocd really means, right? And that question comes in various forms to me is like, oh, is it possible to recovery? I heard ocd is chronic, you know, and um, so I want to talk about this idea of recovery. And so when I talk about OCD recovery, the best...

In this video, I talk about the treatment process for OCD. This is the first video in this series. In this video, I provide a general overview of OCD and OCD Treatment including the goals and expectations for both the client and the therapist.

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00:00 All right. Hello and welcome to this training on OCD treatment in the OCD recovery process. My name is Matt Codde. I'm a licensed clinical social worker and I'm the founder of the OCD academy and I just want to welcome you here today. I'm really excited to be here with you. Um, you know, and in this kind of, just to give you a brief kind of overview, big picture of this, uh, this training that we're going to be doing together, this, this whole training has put together to really answer some just general overview questions about ocd or obsessive compulsive disorder and really helped provide some information to those of you who may be...

In this video, I talk about how to do ERP for Pure O OCD. This is the third of three videos and in this video, I provide a general explanation of how to apply Exposure and Response Prevention to the treatment process of Pure OCD.

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00:00 All right. Hey there and welcome to part three of this series on treating pure ocd. My name is Makati. I'm a licensed clinical social worker down in southern California and in part one and two I really talked about, you know, what is pure ocd, why it's kind of a myth. And then in part two I talked about mental compulsion's and in this part I want to talk about how we do Erp with someone who's experiencing, you know, the quote pure ocd. Now again, first and foremost, we need to understand that pure ocd is not just purely obsessional, there's almost always compulsion's involved and the kind of the gold standard for treatment when it comes...

In this video, I talk about the treatment process for Pure O OCD. This is the second of three videos and in this video, I provide a general explanation of mental compulsions as they relate to Pure OCD treatment.

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00:00 All right. Hello and welcome to part two. Again, my name's Matt. I'm a licensed clinical social work and I'm the founder of the OCD Academy. And in this video we're going to talk about, um, mental compulsion is when it comes to pure ocd. And so, like I said in part one, if you haven't seen part one, be sure to check that out before this video because there's a three-part series, but in part one I talked about this idea of ocd and how, you know, the four parts of, of the OCD cycle with the obsession, the compulsion, and um, I'm sorry, the obsession, the uncertainty, the doubt, and then the compulsion and then the relief. And in, in a typical ocd, um, experience,...